NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1965 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 654

SENATE BILL 329

 

 

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR ADDITIONAL RESIDENT JUDGES IN THE TENTH, TWENTY-FIRST, AND TWENTY-SEVENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICTS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  There is hereby created the office of additional resident judge of each of the judicial districts designated as the tenth, twenty-first, and twenty-seventh, effective as of January 1, 1965. The Governor shall appoint an additional resident judge for each of the tenth, twenty-first, and twenty-seventh judicial districts, to take office July 1, 1965. The successors of the Governor's appointees shall be chosen in the manner prescribed by law for other Resident Superior Court Judges in the general election of 1966 to serve for the unexpired portion of the term of eight years which began as of January 1, 1965, and their successors shall be chosen thereafter in the manner and serve for terms as prescribed for other Resident Superior Court Judges.

Sec. 2.  The present resident judges of the tenth, the twenty-first, and twenty-seventh judicial districts shall be the senior resident judges of their respective districts.

Sec. 3.  The additional resident judges of the tenth, twenty-first, and twenty-seventh judicial districts shall, in respect to the exercise of judicial power, have equal jurisdiction, authority and status with the senior resident judges of such districts; but all duties placed by the Constitution or statutes on the resident judge of a judicial district, including the appointment to and removal from office, which are not related to a case, controversy, or judicial proceeding and which do not involve the exercise of judicial power, shall be discharged by the resident judge of the judicial district senior in point of continuous service on the Superior Court; and if two judges be of equal seniority, then by the judge who is senior in point of age.

Sec. 4.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 5.  This Act shall become effective upon its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 21st day of May, 1965.